"It was like being put in a boxing ring and bashed from all sides," says curator Mami Kataoka with a burst of laughter.
She's recollecting her treatment by the British media, after her latest exhibition, "Laughing in a Foreign Language," opened at London's Hayward Gallery at the end of January.
The 43-year-old is in the rare position of working for two museums at once. One month she's at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, where she is the senior curator, and the next she's at Hayward, where she's the international curator.